Brian J Griffith
@brianjgriffith.bsky.social
Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy.
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@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
https://www.brianjgriffith.com
https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com
https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com
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Projects:
@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
https://www.brianjgriffith.com
https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com
https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com
In May 1924, Giacomo Matteotti -- the influential socialist MP under Benito Mussolini's pre-dictatorship government -- accused the Blackshirts of intimidating voters at the polls. In some cases, Matteotti contended, the Duce's fascists flashed daggers or pistols, ...
Steve Bannon: “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.”
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In May 1924, Giacomo Matteotti -- the influential socialist MP under Benito Mussolini's pre-dictatorship government -- accused the Blackshirts of intimidating voters at the polls. In some cases, Matteotti contended, the Duce's fascists flashed daggers or pistols, ...
Welcome to Hell.
UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.
www.bbc.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Welcome to Hell.
To my Fresno State colleagues and friends, please consider attending!
Dr. @brianjgriffith.bsky.social will be hosting Dr. @simonecinotto.bsky.social on 2-13-26 b/w 10am and 11:30am in the Ellipse Gallery (2nd Floor of the @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social) for a presentation on Dr. Cinotto's monograph, Gastrofascism and Empire (Bloomsbury, 2024).
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
To my Fresno State colleagues and friends, please consider attending!
Reposted by Brian J Griffith
See the open letter co-signed by over 300 scholars on the state-sponsored attacks against historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. We stand against intimidation and for academic freedom.
#AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland
#AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland
An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe - The New Fascism Syllabus
We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholar...
newfascismsyllabus.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:57 AM
See the open letter co-signed by over 300 scholars on the state-sponsored attacks against historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. We stand against intimidation and for academic freedom.
#AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland
#AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland
Reposted by Brian J Griffith
Congratulations to Dr. Maritere Lopez on the launch of her podcast, "The Early Modern Monster Manual."
ABOUT THE PODCAST:
What made a monster in the early modern world? In The Early Modern Monster Manual, students at Fresno State explore how monsters were imagined ...
ABOUT THE PODCAST:
What made a monster in the early modern world? In The Early Modern Monster Manual, students at Fresno State explore how monsters were imagined ...
S1 E6: Early Modern Monsters and Early Ideas of Race
open.spotify.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Maritere Lopez on the launch of her podcast, "The Early Modern Monster Manual."
ABOUT THE PODCAST:
What made a monster in the early modern world? In The Early Modern Monster Manual, students at Fresno State explore how monsters were imagined ...
ABOUT THE PODCAST:
What made a monster in the early modern world? In The Early Modern Monster Manual, students at Fresno State explore how monsters were imagined ...
The panopticon perfected.
SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work.
One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The panopticon perfected.
On Jan 7, 1978, five members of the MSI’s youth group were ambushed by militants in Rome’s Tuscolano neighborhood. Franco Bigonzetti was killed at the scene; Francesco Ciavatta died shortly after. This event, at the Via Acca Larenzia social center, remains a flashpoint in Italian history. 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
On Jan 7, 1978, five members of the MSI’s youth group were ambushed by militants in Rome’s Tuscolano neighborhood. Franco Bigonzetti was killed at the scene; Francesco Ciavatta died shortly after. This event, at the Via Acca Larenzia social center, remains a flashpoint in Italian history. 🧵
Where Monsters Are Born was reviewed in this month's issue of The Public Historian! See below.
Where Monsters Are Born has received its second scholarly review in The Public Historian (University of California Press)! See the URL below.
Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019. Brian J. Griffith and Amy King, Co-editors
“The old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this interregnum, monsters are born.” That is an English translation of a quotation by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci that inspired the ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Where Monsters Are Born was reviewed in this month's issue of The Public Historian! See below.
Scientists: We must stop using fossil fuels and develop an alternative, renewable energy paradigm so that we can save human civilization from a rapidly approaching full-scale collapse due to an industrially-driven destabilization of Earth's climatic systems.
Industrialists: Let's blot out the sun.
Industrialists: Let's blot out the sun.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Scientists: We must stop using fossil fuels and develop an alternative, renewable energy paradigm so that we can save human civilization from a rapidly approaching full-scale collapse due to an industrially-driven destabilization of Earth's climatic systems.
Industrialists: Let's blot out the sun.
Industrialists: Let's blot out the sun.
I don't know how many of you out there are history buffs, but I can think of at least two reasons why Germany building up "Europe's strongest army" is a bad idea...
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don't know how many of you out there are history buffs, but I can think of at least two reasons why Germany building up "Europe's strongest army" is a bad idea...
Headlines: Hitler had a micropenis.
*iPhone > Power > Off*
*iPhone > Power > Off*
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Headlines: Hitler had a micropenis.
*iPhone > Power > Off*
*iPhone > Power > Off*